Bug#632978: approx: /etc/cron.weekly/approx sends malformed line: error every week

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:15:17 -0700 

> Related question this raises is that whether approx should be caching
> such content.

Approx currently spawns an external curl process to download files
from remote repositories.  I suspect that the server's network
connection was via some WiFi portal, and that curl returned the WiFi
authentication page instead of the actual content, without indicating
any error.

I'm not sure how to avoid this, but I'm planning to use a native HTTP
client rather than curl in a future version, so perhaps I'll have more
control over situations like this.

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Eric Cooper             e c c @ c m u . e d u



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